Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0About half of Kings Grant’s working residents commute to Wilmington
Working from home is the commute for 25% of workers, next to 16% for North Carolina as a whole. For jobs and income Kings Grant is better than 50% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (B−). Only 4% work in Kings Grant; the top destination outside it is Wilmington (47%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Kings Grant and work: the main findings
Kings Grant trades workers with the towns around it
Kings Grant has about as many jobs (4,100) as working residents (3,964), but they are mostly different people: 3,816 residents leave for work each day while 3,952 people come in. Only 4% of the jobs in Kings Grant are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Most Kings Grant residents work close to home
68% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Home offices are common in Kings Grant
25% of Kings Grant workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. Time on the road ↓
Kings Grant has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Kings Grant went from 2,979 in 2013 to 4,100 in 2023, +38%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The figures behind Kings Grant’s Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Kings Grant’s grade up (2.9%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (14.7%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Kings Grant could be anywhere from C to B+.
How a workday changes Kings Grant
On a workday 3,816 residents head out to work, 148 work right here, and 3,952 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.03 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Kings Grant’s commute, mile by mile
About 22% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The daily trip from Kings Grant: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kings Grant workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,594 commuters (the 25% who work from home are left out). Across North Carolina: 85% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Kings Grant makes things: 30% of its jobs are in goods
4,100 jobs are based in Kings Grant.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kings Grant, 2013 → 2023: 2,979 → 4,100. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Kings Grant’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Kings Grant’s working residents head each day
Where Kings Grant clocks in
47% of workers
3% of workers
2% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Most trips from Kings Grant start in a car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.9% across North Carolina.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,798 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 73% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 2% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.1% of Kings Grant households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kings Grant’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 6,300 to 12,200, Kings Grant ranks 1,717th of 2,891 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
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| 197 | Oak Ridge NC | 7,896 | $155K | 3.6% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 367 | Summerfield NC | 11,327 | $160K | 7.1% | 2.1% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 375 | Ogden NC | 8,249 | $121K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,715 | Ilion NY | 7,488 | $63K | 14.5% | 2.2% | 13% | B− |
| 1,716 | Carneys Point Township NJ | 8,766 | $79K | 11.9% | 7.3% | 9% | B− |
| 1,717 | Kings Grant NC | 9,003 | $62K | 14.7% | 2.9% | 4% | B− |
| 1,718 | Wharton NJ | 7,618 | $86K | 15.3% | 7.4% | 6% | B− |
| 1,719 | Lansdowne PA | 11,141 | $73K | 11.8% | 7.4% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,891 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Kings Grant, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
The towns next door employ 51% of Kings Grant
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Kings Grant workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kings Grant | – | B− | B− | 23 min | $62,232 |
| Wilmington | 47% | C+ | A | 19 min | $66,738 |
| Wrightsboro | 1% | B | C+ | 22 min | $78,450 |
| Murraysville | 3% | B | C+ | 23 min | $81,167 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Wilmington. Darker towns draw more of Kings Grant’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Kings Grant: questions
What is the median household income in Kings Grant?
$62,232 (±$12,141) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kings Grant?
14.7%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kings Grant?
23 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kings Grant work?
4% work in town.
Is Kings Grant walkable?
Kings Grant is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 10.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kings Grant without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 2% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kings Grant, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kings Grant
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.